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University of New Orleans. Honors thesis. 1998.; University of New Orleans. Dept. of English.

Abstract/Introduction

In the last recent decades, Shelley's political poetry and prose have received increased scholarly attention. These studies, best exemplified by P.M.S. Dawson's The Unacknowledged Legislator: Shelley and Politics (1980) and Kenneth Neill Cameron's Shelley: The Golden Years (1974), connect Shelley with the major influences on his political writing, chiefly William Godwin and the aristocratic liberals of Regency England. Yet by emphasizing Shelley's affinities with such figures, these critics offer a selective account of Shelley's political writing, one that overlooks the possibility of Shelley's interest in the writing of plebeian radicals. To most contemporary scholars, Shelley's engagement with the radicals seems unlikely because of the apparent contrast between their incendiary rhetoric insisting on radical reform and the poet's perceived ambivalence over revolution and political violence, as well as his hesitance to grant universal male suffrage. Shelley's apparent positions on these issues obscure the poet's relationship with other radical voices in the political scene.

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Degree

B.A.

Degree Program

English

Department

Department of English

Thesis Advisor

Schock, Peter A.

Advisory Committee

Doll, Daniel E.; Mooney, Michael E.

Date Degree Awarded

1998;

Rights

The University of New Orleans and its agents retain the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible this thesis in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The author retains all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis.

Notes

38 leaves ; 29 cm.; typescript; "An honors thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with University Honors and Honors in English"; Thesis (B.A.)--University of New Orleans, 1998; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-38); December 1998; approved December 8, 1998.